Dear friends and colleagues,
At Global Strategy Journal, we have a call for papers for a special issue on ownership and global strategy. To accommodate requests for extension and in the spirit of fairness we have extended the deadline to July 11, 2022. The full
call for papers appears here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/OwnershipGlobalStrategy_SI_GSJ_210822-1630678705.pdf.
Below you can find a summary.
We look forward to receiving your manuscripts!
Best wishes,
Alvaro
Ownership and Global Strategy
Submission
deadline (extended): July
11, 2022
Guest
Editors:
GeoffreyT.
Wood, Western University,
Canada
Anna
Grosman, Loughborough University
London, UK
MichaelJ.
Mol, Copenhagen BusinessSchool,
Denmark & University
of Birmingham,
UK
Supervising
Editor:
Alvaro
Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern
University, USA
Who owns the firm (local or foreign shareholders, governments or private investors, concentrated or diffused shareholders, traditional or alternative investors)
has long been an essential topic for research on organizations. At
the same
time, our
conceptualization of
ownership has
widened over
time to
incorporate owners as strategists (most prominently in the case of entrepreneurial financiers), sources of capital (as in the case of large joint-stock companies), and mechanisms of control (direct or via institutional intermediaries).
The linkages and
tensions amongst these
conceptual foundations
(for instance,
the tension between ownership, ownership structures, and control) have been the focus of a large literature in global strategy. At the same time, this diversity in conceptual foundations provides numerous opportunities
for advancing our understanding of the role of ownership in global strategy. This is the objective of this special issue: analyzing how ownership affects global strategy and, by extension, how strategies are employed to accommodate owners.
Althoughnot
an exhaustive
list, we
would particularly
welcome papers that
have a
scope that goes
beyond national boundaries and look at questions such as those listed below.
Owners
as strategists:
1. International
private equity:
2. Sovereign
wealth funds:
3. International venture
capital:
4.
International crowdfunding:
5. International hedge
funds:
a.
What
is the
effect of hedge
fund activism
on managerial
behavior in investee
firms?
b.
How
do hedge
funds impact the
management of
the overseas firms
they invest in?
c.
What
is the
impact of the
increased usage
of high-frequency
trading by international
hedge funds in different national systems on target firm policies and practices?
d.
What is the impact of co-investment by hedge funds and other alternative investors on investee firms?
6.
What are
emergingregulatory
responses,
perhaps
as
a
form
of
financial
protectionism,
to
alternative and
institutional investors at
the national
and supranational
levels,and
how do
these affect
investors and investees?
7. Why do firms acquire strategic assets across borders in a portfolio manner (as opposed to direct ownership)?
What are
the implications
for ownership
and control,
and how
does this
affect strategy in investee firms?
8. What
is the
effect of
country of origin
on corporatecontrol by
institutional investors
from abroad?
9. How do United Nations’ sustainable development goals reshape the investment strategy of international investors?
Firms
accommodating ownership:
Alvaro CUERVO-CAZURRA
Professor, International Business and Strategy, Northeastern University
Co-editor, Global Strategy Journal
Recent publications:
Multinationals misbehavior. JWB
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business. JIBS
State ownership and internationalization: The advantage and disadvantage of stateness. JWB
Innovating for the Middle of the Pyramid in Emerging Countries. Cambridge University Press